Re: Open source DOS games

Posted on 2021-08-26, 09:34

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Ken Silverman has a few more games with source on his page: http://www.advsys.net/ken/download.htm And here's a small list of FOSS stuff for DOS: https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/fr … roup-games.html

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Re: DOS Shareware Collection CD

Posted on 2021-08-26, 09:30

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You must have used dosgames.com as your primary reference when compiling the list of games to add, am I right?

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Re: Creating a CD with freeware DOS games - Any game suggestions?

Posted on 2021-08-26, 09:29

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Yeah, creating a freeware CD was a lot of trouble due to the lack of information on current status of each game. Another concern is that the developer can make a game freeware at some point, but then start selling it again for some reason. The freeware CD I made seems to be "legal" so far, but it's …

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Re: Windows port from DOS games

Posted on 2021-08-25, 18:58

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Hope it's okay to res this thread, for the potential usefulness of the information. A while ago I attempted to compile my own list, called (probably somewhat confusingly, but I was aiming at the lowest common denominator of the userbase) DOS games that don't need DOSBox to run in Windows The list …

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Re: Creating a CD with freeware DOS games - Any game suggestions?

Posted on 2021-08-25, 14:25

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- Igor : objective Uikokahonia Apologies for bumping, I just stumbled upon this thread while looking for something else. I've never heard of Igor having become a freeware game. I just looked it up, the Wikipedia entry suggests that the freeware release was announced in 2007 here : Das erste Pendulo …

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Re: Authorised fan remakes of/sequels to games

Posted on 2021-08-25, 13:15

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schlomoe99 wrote on 2021-08-25, 12:26: What about the Close Combat series? You know of an authorised fan remake?

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Re: Authorised fan remakes of/sequels to games

Posted on 2021-08-25, 11:51

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There's alleged 'written permission from CBS' about the data distribution. The port's not quite a recreation (Elite Force used idtech3 with bink/mp3 additions), but just a patch that implements the holomatch binary's functions and traps to get the multi game working (with huge accuracy issues in …

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Re: Authorised fan remakes of/sequels to games

Posted on 2021-08-24, 20:02

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https://m.majorgeeks.com/files/details/millennium_remake.html Amazing remake of the amazing game Millennium. :) Nice, but where does it say that the remake was authorised by the creators of the original game? Star Trek Voyager: Elite Force has had it's multi-player portion released freely to the …

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Re: Total conversions/mods that became standalone games

Posted on 2021-08-24, 19:28

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Supplice is originally a high-quality Doom TC that's been in development for over a decade which has been recently announced to be released as a stand-alone game.

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Re: Video game clones that closely replicate the original "look & feel"/"style"

Posted on 2021-08-24, 19:24

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I watched some videos of FLARE and apparently it plays a lot like Diablo, up to the popping up gold piles from chests, barrels and enemies.

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Re: Open source DOS games

Posted on 2021-08-24, 19:06

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Found two fairly obscure games via this blog. Both have DOS binaries and available code, but the code seems to be for Windows ports: Space Plumber Freaks!

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Re: Short day-night cycles and changing weather in games are immersion breaking

Posted on 2021-08-24, 18:49

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Daggerfall is a game I still need to get into. I'm inclined to play the original DOS version but Unity is probably really better, especially if it's more moddable. It is my understanding that the latest versions of DFU made a lot more progress towards a faithful recreation of the original mechanics …

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Re: Short day-night cycles and changing weather in games are immersion breaking

Posted on 2021-08-23, 22:00

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I don't just want to save up gold pieces for some huge weapon, I want to also be thinking about where I'm going to get my next meal, and strategize how I'm going to "move up" in the world so that I can survive more easily. As that is accomplished, I'll then have more time and resources to expend on …

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Re: Random free game findings

Posted on 2021-08-23, 21:46

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I was just browsing the DEMU Classic PC Games collection and discovered information about a DOS-based train simulator that was made by a small Polish hobbyist dev team called Mechanik . Apparently it gained substantial international popularity, mostly thanks to word of mouth via the early Internet …

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Re: Short day-night cycles and changing weather in games are immersion breaking

Posted on 2021-08-22, 17:11

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I think there's another problem here, namely the goal of creating a minutely realistic world in an RPG could be at odds with actual gameplay. There's an extremely fine balance to be kept here because as much a player might want to be in as realistic a game world as possible, maintaining such an …

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Re: Short day-night cycles and changing weather in games are immersion breaking

Posted on 2021-08-21, 20:03

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Joseph_Joestar wrote on 2021-08-19, 15:57: Gothic II I only played the demo of the first Gothic game, and that was before I got seriously interested in RPGs, but I can say that this game, and probably the entire series, clearly does a way better job at making an appearance of a living world than …

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Re: english, the planetary language

Posted on 2021-08-19, 16:36

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Apparently, in the US, during lock-down the children watched a British cartoon show much more often than it is good for them. ;) https://abc7news.com/peppa-pig-accent-british-cartoon-tv-series/10898049/ I remember that story. It actually has some interesting and partially unexplored (yet) …

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Re: Short day-night cycles and changing weather in games are immersion breaking

Posted on 2021-08-19, 15:37

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Oh you'll love Frontier: Elite 2 and Frontier First Encounters then, you can leave the time acceleration alone and take 3 days to a week after every jump to make planetfall. I don't believe this is what the OP had in mind, the kilometre walk example appears to suggest that the player character is …

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Re: Why people still love XP

Posted on 2021-08-19, 12:29

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For a very long time, I've had an ASUS laptop with a preinstalled WinXP SP1, regularly used it over 10 years with almost no issues. I remember when it was new back in 2003/4 or something, I was rather conservative then and used a PC with Win98 as the main machine, and wasn't excited, but grew fond …

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Re: Open source DOS games

Posted on 2021-08-15, 19:27

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I've neglected this thread for too long and have just reworked the lists, with a lot of games added. Games with non-free data are now a separate sub-list.

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